A HAPPY WARRIOR

with decisive courage in spite of that tormenting
anxiety which enfeebles us all, and he had preserved
throughout the perilous retreat a modesty, politeness,
and moderation, partly implanted in his nature, and
partly inculcated by the teaching of his master.

At the start near Sardis the force of all arms num-
bered about thirteen thousand (later increased to
more than fourteen thousand) and at a review near
Trapezus he reckoned about ten thousand, but some,
including the women, had already sailed for Byzan-
tium. The march to Gunaxa and on to Trapezus
seems to have lasted about a year (from March, 401,
to February, 400), and the distance has been estimated
at about two-thousand-four-hundred miles, but exact
estimate is impossible; for the Persian measure
" parasangs " used by Xenophon varied from place to
place and the average of three miles is probably too
high by at least a third. However long in time or
space, the adventurous task was accomplished, and
as the accomplishment of an adventurous task is the
highest happiness that can befall a man, we may
account Xenophon supremely happy at the moment
when he descended into the port of Trebizond.

On one other occasion I had the chance to consort
with my great example's ghost. I was making my way
on foot through Arcadia from the beautiful temple to
Pan and Apollo at Bassae, when in Elis night over-
took me among the hills near Chrestena, only a few
miles short of Olympia, and there I lay down to sleep
among the sweet-smelling herbs and bushes abundant
in Greece. I must have been close to the place which
Xenophon calls Scillus and describes with affection
towards the end of his Anabasis. For he lived there
many years, an exile from Athens, and there one may
suppose he wrote most of his books—the treatises on

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